September 1904 Explained

The following events occurred in September 1904:

September 1, 1904 (Thursday)

• Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opened in London with a Western League fixture versus Plymouth Argyle.^[1]

September 2, 1904 (Friday)

• John Voss sailed the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westward around the world.
• Died:
  • James Brady, 29, American criminal, died of tuberculosis.
  • Elizabeth Colenso (born Elizabeth Fairburn), 83, New Zealander Protestant missionary

September 3, 1904 (Saturday)

• Died:
  • James Archer RSA, 81, Scottish artist
  • Heinrich Koebner, 65, German-born Israeli dermatologist

September 4, 1904 (Sunday)

• Died: William McCallin, 62, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890, died of dropsy.

September 5, 1904 (Monday)

• Died: Herbert von Bismarck, 54, German politician

September 7, 1904 (Wednesday)

• As a result of the British expedition to Tibet, the Dalai Lama signed the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
• Horace Maples, an African-American man who had been accused of murder, was lynched by a mob of approximately 2,000 people in Huntsville, Alabama.^[2]
• Born: Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player; in Vilna, Russian Empire (d. 1991)^[3]

September 9, 1904 (Friday)

• A total solar eclipse was visible from northern Chile.^{[4] [5]}
• Born: Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player; in Basti Daneshmandan, Jalandhar, Punjab Province (British India) (d. 2005)^[6]

September 12, 1904 (Monday)

• Born: Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner; in Hinton, Oklahoma Territory (d. 1956, brain hemorrhage)

September 13, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Born:
  • Gladys George, American stage and screen actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie; in Patten, Maine (d. 1954)^[7]
  • Alberta Williams King (born Alberta Christine Williams), American civil rights activist, wife of Martin Luther King Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr.; in Atlanta (assassinated 1974)
• Died: Surgeon-General James Jameson, 67, British Army surgeon

September 14, 1904 (Wednesday)

• Born:
  • Frank Amyot, Canadian Olympic champion sprint canoeist; in Thornhill, Ontario (d. 1962, cancer)^[8]
  • Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister; in Breslau (d. 1957)

September 15, 1904 (Thursday)

• Born: Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy; in Racconigi, Piedmont (d. 1983)

September 17, 1904 (Saturday)

• An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease was published in the United States.^[9]
• Died: Kartini, 25, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist, died from complications of childbirth.^[10]

September 19, 1904 (Monday)

• Born: Elvia Allman, American actress; in Enochville, North Carolina (d. 1992)

September 20, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Died:
  • R. W. H. T. Hudson, 28, British mathematician, died in a mountaineering accident.^{[11] [12]}
  • José Maria de Yermo y Parres, 52, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint, died of a stomach ulcer.

September 22, 1904 (Thursday)

• Born: Lessie Brown, former oldest living American; in Georgia (d. 2019)
• Died: Louis Massebieau, 64, French historian and Protestant theologian

September 23, 1904 (Friday)

• Died:
  • George Adams, 65, Australian businessman
  • Émile Gallé, 58, French artist

September 24, 1904 (Saturday)

• Near New Market, Tennessee, two Southern Railway passenger trains traveling at great speed collided head on, killing between 56 and 113 passengers and crew and injuring 106.^{[13] [14] [15]}
• Died:
  • Niels Ryberg Finsen, 43, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903^[16]
  • Gustav Frank, 71, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian^[17]
  • Caleb C. Harris, 68, American farmer and physician, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, died after surgery for peritonitis.^{[18] [19]}

September 26, 1904 (Monday)

• New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack was individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act.^[20]
• Born: Constantin Doncea, Romanian communist activist and politician; in Cocu, Argeș (d. 1973)
• Died:
  • Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 62
  • Lafcadio Hearn (aka Yakumo Koizumi), 54, Greek-Irish Japanese author

September 27, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Died: David G. Colson, 43, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky^[21]

September 29, 1904 (Thursday)

• Born:
  • Greer Garson, English-American actress, 7-time Academy Award nominee, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mrs. Miniver; in Manor Park, County Borough of East Ham, Essex (d. 1996)^[22]
  • Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer; in Kowel (d. 1965)^[23]

Notes and References

1. Book: Brentford Football Club Official Matchday Magazine versus AFC Bournemouth . 4 September 2004 . Dunwoody Sports Marketing . . 6.
2. News: ALABAMA MOB HANGS NEGRO.; Burns Jail to Get at Him -- Vote Taken Before Hanging. . 13 June 2024 . . 8 September 1904 . Page 1, column 2.
3. Web site: Daniel Prenn . . 23 September 2020 . 28 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201028114032/https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/daniel-prenn/800170543/ger/mt/d/overview/ . live.
4. The Total Eclipse of September 9, 1904. . Campbell . W. W. . William Wallace Campbell . . 16 . 10 December 1904 . 519 . 266–267 . 10.1126/science.20.519.812 . 1904Sci....20..812C . 13 June 2024 . Internet Archive.
5. Web site: Total Solar Eclipse of 1904 Sep 09 . Espenak . F. . . 12 July 2004 . 13 June 2024.
6. Web site: Feroze Khan . . OlyMADMen . 12 June 2024.
7. Web site: Gladys George - Broadway Cast & Staff . . . 12 June 2024.
8. Web site: Frank Amyot . Olympedia . OlyMADMen . 12 June 2024.
9. Cabot . Richard C. . Richard Clarke Cabot . The relation of alcohol to arteriosclerosis . . 1904 . 43 . 12 . 774–775 . 10.1001/jama.1904.92500120002a . 2019-10-04 . 11 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200411134213/https://zenodo.org/record/1447273 . live.
10. Web site: Raden Adjeng Kartini Biography . ((Biography.com Editors)) . . 13 June 2024 . . 21 April 2020 . Originally published 2 April 2014.
11. Hudson RWHT . F. S. M. . Obituary . . October 1904 . 3 . 47 . 73–75 . 10.1017/S0025557200241454 . . 13 June 2024 . Cambridge University Press.
12. Book: Notice de personne "Hudson, Ronald William Henry Turnbull (1876-....)" . Person notice "Hudson, Ronald William Henry Turnbull (1876-....)" . . fr . 21 January 1994 . 13 June 2024.
13. News: OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF WRECK. . The Rutherfordton Tribune . . 29 September 1904 . Page 2, column 5 . 13 June 2024 . Newspapers.com.
14. Disaster Management at the 1904 New Market, Tennessee Train Wreck: Role of a Surgeon . 13 June 2024 . . 1 June 2009 . Testerman . George M. . . 102 . 6 . 645–648 . Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31819ea068 . 19434046 .
15. Web site: History of the New Market Train Wreck . http://web.archive.org/web/20120608060913/http://jc-schools.net/nms/TRAINHISTORY.htm . 8 June 2012 . 13 June 2024.
16. Web site: Niels Ryberg Finsen – Facts . . Nobel Prize Outreach AB . 2024 . 13 June 2024 .
17. Frank, Gustav Wilhelm (1832-1904), Evangelischer Theologe . Frank, Gustav Wilhelm (1832-1904), Protestant theologian . . 1 . 1956 . 343 . . 978-3-7001-3213-4 . de . 13 June 2024 . Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
18. Book: Wisconsin Blue Book 1895 . 1895 . Biographical Sketch of Caleb C. Harris . 693.
19. News: Dr C. C. Harris Dead . . 29 September 1904 . 1.
20. Encyclopedia: Alpers . Antony Francis George . PELORUS JACK . . A. H. . McLintock . Alexander Hare McLintock . 1966 . . 12 June 2024.
21. Web site: COLSON, David Grant 1861 – 1904 . . 13 June 2024.
22. Web site: Greer Garson - Broadway Cast & Staff . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . 12 June 2024.
23. Web site: Michal Waszynski . . 18 January 2023 . 25 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221225041236/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913773/ . live.